20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About American Dad

17. Writers Listen To Music For Ideas

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It's fair to say at point American Dad's gone pretty ridiculous. OK, so a James Bond parody is to be expected, but at points the show has made some pretty crazy plots that shockingly obey a warped internal logic (at least within individual episodes). You just have to wonder where it all come from.

Wonder no more. Mike Barker, series creator and show-runner up until the recent Season 11, has revealed many of his ideas come from listening to music for inspiration, with particular credit given to Wax Fang, whose songs he describes as "inherently cinematic". If we were being cynical, we'd suggest there was something else helping these concepts come to life.

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